Crown and traveling block pulley



Jan. 18,1927. 1,615,173

W. s. EVANS CROWN AND TRAVELING BLQCK PULLEY Filed De. 29, 1925 2 Sheets-Sheet l Illlll Ui y mywmvm @MDM 1 Jan. 18 1927.`

w. s. EVANS CROWN AND TRAVELING BLOCK PULLEY Fled Dec. 29, 1925 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 Patented Jan. 18, 1927.

PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM S. EVANS, OF MORSEMERE, NEW JERSEY.

CROWN AND TRAVELING BLOCK PULLEY.

Application filed December 29, 1,925.

This invention relates particularly to the heavy crown block and traveling bloclr pulleys used in the oil fields. The sheaves of these blocks are subjected to unusually severe wear because of the sand and grit carried by the cables. Usually these pulley sheaves are made of cast iron and as they must run freely to carry the cable at highspeed, it is customary to mount them with special antifriction roller bearings. The abrasive aotion of the wire rope rapidly wears away the rims of these sheaves, rendering them useless long before the roller bearings are worn out and as these `bearings are necessarily rather expensive, the loss thus occasioned by the wearing oif the rims is considerable.

It has been proposed to construct these pulleys of a harder and better wearing material, such Jfor instance as manganese steel, but this is prohibitive because of the cost of t-he material and the expense of manufacture, the metal being so hard that it cannot be machined and has to be ground nto shape.

It has also been proposed to line the groove of a chain drive sheave with a shell of manganese steel keyed in place by interiitting projections and seats in the liner and pulley groove and provided with projecting lugs for driving the chain. This driving sheave structure, however, is not applicable to'the present problem because the conditions in a free running pulley are reversed, the sheave being the driven element and serving as a `free running support instead of a power This groove liner transmitting member. structure isalso impracticable for oil iield service because of the excessive weights the pulleys must be capable of carrying.

s The present invention aims to provide a practical solution of the problems stated and further, to provide a pulley sheave for crown blocks, traveling blocks and the like,

capable of carrying a heavy running load and withstanding abrasive and other destructive forces and which, furthermore, will be entirely practical from both the manufacturing and the costs standpoints.

Theseobjects are attained by cert-ain novel features of construction, combinations and relations ofparts as hereinafter set forth and broadly claimed.

The drawings accompanying and forming part of this specification illustrate 'the invention embodied in two of its present commercial forms.

Serial No. 78,153.

Figure 1 is a vertical sectional view of a form ot the new sheave as mounted in :i crown block, this view being taken as on substantially the plane of line 1-1 of Figure 2.

Figure 2 is a side elevation and part scctional view of the sheave as taken on substantially the plane of line 2 2 of Figure 1.

Figure 2a is a broken detail section as on subsantially the plane of line 21- a of Fi'gure Figure 3 is a broken detail of the scarfedend -of one of the rim segments. Figure 4l: is a side elevation of a form of 4the invention in which the rim is made as a single continuous piece instead of in segments, as in theptirst form.

Figure 5 is an enlarged cross sectional detail as on line 5-5 of Figure 4.

The center or hub portion of the pullev consist-s of a sleeve or hub structure 7 .carry/- ing an outstanding annular web or flange 8. This forms the corew or weight carrying portion of the pulley and may be made of cast iron which is relatively inexpensive and can be readily machined to take the tapered roll or other anti-friction bearings 9.

The rim of the pulley consists of a ring of harder, long wearing material, such as manganese steel. This ring Vmay be made in segments as shown at 10, 11 in Figures 1 to 6 or be made as a single complete annulus as indicated at 12 in Figures 4 and 5, it being in each case grooved on its exterior at 13 to receive the cable and shaped interiorly to seat on the outstanding web of the hub.

In the first embodiment shown, the engagement of the rim with the web is effected Y by grooving the rim segments at 14 to it closely over and about the edge of the web and by Jfastening bolts or rivets 15 through radially or inwardly extending perforated lugs 16 and the intervening portions of the web embraced thereby.

To provide Vsmooth joints at the meeting ends of the segments these ends may be soaried as indicated at 17, the halt-width sections thus formed at the ends of the segments overlapping as indicated particularly in Figurer2 and each carrying one of the anchorage lugs 16 so that a single securing bolt or rivet at each joint serves both to fasten the segments together in overlapping order and to anchor the ends of the segments to the web of the pulley. The end lugs 16 ot each rim segmentV arel disposed at opposite vpiece ringas `in Figures 4C and 5, the inside of the rim, instead of being giooved as `in the first instance, may be made with a relatively short annular web 18 engaging about and having a tight fit over the web ofthe hub. The if'imis iixedly secured in this relation 4by fastenings 19 extended through yregistering notches 20, 2l, formed in opposing portions of the web of the rim and the web of the hub respectively, said fastenings being illustrated as relatively heavy rivets having broad heads 22 overlying the faces of the two webs to lio-ld them securely alined as indicated in Figure The assembly and securing of this form of rim on the pulley center is thus also a relatively simple matter.

Also, once fastened, the parts are securely 'held and interloclied in a rigid unitary strueture. In case of need, however, the fastenings may be driven out and the rim segments or the complete rim, as the case may be, be removed from the pulley center and 4be replaced by a new or different rim.

lThe pulley center consisting of but the hub and outstanding flange, is relatively inexpensive, strong and because of its simpler structure can be readily and inexpensively manufactured to accurate size for close fit with the rim. The -riin also, Whether -it be in the segmental or in the continuous ring forni is free of any manufacturing complicationsv and is particularly strong and, strength considered, requires but a minimum of the expensive, harder metal in itsI malte up. In both forms a minimum of grinding and `fitting is required, practically the only work of Vthis character necessary being to shape the cable groove in the outside of the rim and the ygroove or the iiat side, as the case may be at the inside of the rim for engagement with the-web of the hub.

'The groove in the rim is shaped to taire the cable with the least possible friction and is brought to a smooth finish. This results in reduced wear on the cable. Because of t-he greater strength in the harder metal rim, the pulley sheaves can be made considerably lighter in weight than thosenow in use.

In the crown block installation shown in igures l and 2, the roller bearings 9 Awhich carry the sheave are mounted on a support- 'blocks andthe likeicomprising ya--sheave hub having a `plain outstanding ungrooved 4oircular web, a grooved rim yof hard 'wear-ra sisting metalhaving a circular inner-surface to lit lthe plain edgevof the web and 4fastening' means Sfor securing the irim-againstlat` eral displacement on the edge of lthe web,

the rim being interrupted and ihavin'g :its

ends scarfcd and joined in'overlappin'g relation with fastening lugs on thevoverlapping portions of such ends extendingrradially inwardly over'the sides ofthe web anda `lfastening stud extending through said lugs'.

2. A pulley :for crown blocks, ytraveling blocks and the likecoinprising a sheave hub having a'plain outstanding ungrooved circular web, a. grooved rim of hard -we'ar ,resisting Vmetal having a circularfinner surface Vto t the plain edge of the 4web -andfastening means for securing fthe rim .against lateral displacement on the edge of the web, including headed studs, `the rim having a narrow inner web resting on the hub web andthe two webs having complementary :notches ,receiving the studs, the heads of :the studs overlapping adjacent portions 'of the Itwo webs, whereby `the `parts are interlocked against lateral and rotativedisplacement.

3. A free running pulley for 'crown-blocks, traveling blocks and the like comprisinga relatively fixed supporting shaft, a lsheave Ahub journaled to rotate lfreely thereon :and

provided with an outstanding substantially circular web, a Vrim `ofhard flong wearing metal having a continuously smooth and funcbstructed cable receiving "groove, said Arim having its inner surface finished to `fitit-he web of the hub, said web and rim having overlapping portions consisting vof spaced flanges on oneeinbracing a web portioniof theother and fastenings extending .through said relatively overlapping'flanges{and :the web portioirembraced thereby, said rim consisting of duplicate segments having reversely scarfed ends secured in overlapping. relation by the fastenings aforesaid.

In witness whereof, l have hereunto set my hand this 28th day of December, i192?.

VILLIAM S, ANS. 

